The retail shopper is changing rapidly. To keep up, so must the retail industry. The internet, online shopping, mobile communications, smartphones, tablets and more turning traditional shoppers into something else entirely: connected shoppers. Today’s shoppers can now shop online, on either a computer or mobile device, as well as in brick-and-mortar stores. For retailers, the implications are huge.
In this complex new environment, there are two vital questions. First, as a retailer, how do you create differentiated value that will enable you to stand out from the crowd? Second, how can you strengthen customer relationships, build loyalty, increase sales and maximize profitability?

Good marketers are going where their customers are - that means social media. According to a recent Unica global survey of marketers, 47% of respondents say they currently use social media marketing tactics; in North America, that number jumps to 58%. Yet, for all the rush, many marketers are wondering, "where's the gold?" Download the white paper, "From Social Media Hype to Social Media Marketing" and learn how to build a stronger customer relationship."

This explosion in the amount of information is similar to the boom the marketing world saw in the early 2000’s with the introduction of customer data. Now that recruiters finally have access to the same types of information as marketers, it’s becoming more clear that recruiting is marketing. Whereas the marketing world immediately saw the value in this data and latched onto technologies that could leverage the information, the recruiting world is just catching up. The proliferation of CRMs has revolutionized marketing and business development. Creating and maintaining relationships has always been part of a sound business strategy, but that nebulous process has now been operationalized through software like Salesforce. There is a reason the CRM software market has boomed to over $20 billion...it works. Personalizing the process to maintain constant contact and build relationships has been shown to be extremely effective in converting leads to sales.

A transformation is taking place in how people interact and how relationships form and develop and this is changing the way we socialise, the way we work and the way we engage with our customers. The new normal is that customers are leading the conversations that define your brand, competitors are crowd-sourcing ideas to bring new offerings to market and employees are using social media in all facets of their lives, including work.
This shift in technology and human behaviour presents an opportunity for organisations to improve everything from reinventing customer relationships to how work gets done. A Social Business embraces networks of people to create business value and activates networks of people that apply relevant content and expertise to improve and accelerate core and ad hoc processes, delivering unprecedented return for the time invested.

This whitepaper chronicles Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company, the first sales organization to embark on CRM 3.0, bypassing CRM 2.0, representing a paradigm shift in strategy, people, and technology management. We outline how this bridged approach was achieved and how your organization can do the same.

Digitally, consumers today share knowledge and self-organize online, seizing more collective power than ever. This is the connected economy, where consumers rule. Learn the four trends businesses must learn to succeed in their reign

This paper explores what authenticity really means to consumers, and how brands can deliver it, every time. Includes best practices for companies that collect and display reviews, handling employee reviews, and how dubious practices can harm your business.

In this new whitepaper, we’ll show you how banks that embrace this social opportunity are deepening relationships with customers and driving business. We’ll share tips and success stories of retail banks.

The latest release of SugarCRM’s flagship product gives users new tools to build extraordinary customer relationships. Read an in-depth analysis of SugarCRM’s enhanced ability to help companies execute their customer-facing initiatives from Ovum, a leading technology research firm.

In this on demand webinar explore the impact of cloud initiatives and new customer relationships on integration strategy. Learn what you should take into account when preparing your integration initiatives.

A transformation is taking place in how people interact and how relationships form and develop and this is changing the way we socialise, the way we work and the way we engage with our customers. The new normal is that customers are leading the conversations that define your brand, competitors are crowd-sourcing ideas to bring new offerings to market and employees are using social media in all facets of their lives, including work.
This shift in technology and human behaviour presents an opportunity for organisations to improve everything from reinventing customer relationships to how work gets done. A Social Business embraces networks of people to create business value and activates networks of people that apply relevant content and expertise to improve and accelerate core and ad hoc processes, delivering unprecedented return for the time invested.

In the race to establish and maintain strong customer relationships, line-of-business executives are increasingly turning to cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce. That’s because these applications offer greater functionality and scalability than on-premises applications.
An enterprise-grade, Integration platform as a Service (iPaaS) application can provide a unified approach and toolset to support today’s disparate, hybrid IT landscape, and offer benefits for companies of all sizes.
Read this guidebook to learn how to build better customer relationships by connecting the data the data that runs your business, and automating business processes that can benefit from Salesforce application integration.

This white paper offers a brief overview of how organizations can best use social data by implementing a framework to integrate social data with other enterprise and public or curated data. This framework provides a platform for uncovering new insights that can be fed into business intelligence and customer experience management systems in near real-time to help marketing, sales, service, and commerce teams accelerate decision-making and create long-term, profitable customer relationships.

Examine how forward-looking firms are revamping their lead-to-cash process to impact what matters in the emerging economic environment: strong customer relationships and profitable growth. These firms are achieving a new level of process innovation and integration with powerful new software tools.

Cloudy with a chance of mishap: How weather insights can help insurers manage risk and drive client value
This executive report identifies opportunities for insurance companies to use weather data as an important asset in both managing operational and financial risks, as well as improving customer relationships. It also explores how companies can start using weather data in their day-to-day operations and considers future directions in the use of weather-related information for insurers.

Transform your customer relationships by understanding how to create a world-class mobile app experience that will keep users coming back for more. Download the white paper to learn the 4 steps to driving customer loyalty today.

EMI Music is one of the top global recorded music companies and represents artists spanning all musical tastes and genres including Lily Allen, Coldplay, and Pink Floyd. No longer able to rely on mass marketing to drive in-store sales, EMI Music had to figure out who, exactly, was downloading its artists' music, and how to maximize communications with those consumers to strengthen relationships and drive more revenue. EMI Music opted for enterprise marketing software from Neolane that would help the company better capture consumer information from multiple sources and integrate its disparate CRM and customer analytics applications.

Accor is one of the world's largest travel, tourism and corporate services companies. With over 4,000 hotels worldwide, Accor Hotels covers all segments from economy to upscale. Sofitel, Novotel and Motel 6 are just a few of Accor's hotel brands. Accor's online relationship marketing strategy aims to convert prospects into customers and build customer value through increasing the depth of relationships and growing revenues from repeat bookings, cross-sales, up-sales and referrals.

Attend this webcast to see the product in action (including integration to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services), to understand the competitive advantages Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online has over other solutions in the market, and to hear examples of successful customers managing their customer relationships in the cloud.

Social media is reshaping the relationships that customers have with products, services and brands. Read this white paper to learn how the right combination of technologies can help you understand emerging consumer trends and increase the ROI of your marketing campaigns.

On any given day, you can ask every passenger on any given airliner what fare they’ve paid, and you’re likely to get as many different answers as the number of passengers willing (and able) to tell you. This plethora of fares is a product of complex revenue management systems evolved by airlines to optimize seat revenues. But is the current system of management the revenue endgame? Or is there an opportunity to look beyond traditional accept-or-reject decisions to build a more customer-centric revenue management system — one that builds on new customer insights to drive management decisions and uncover new sources of revenue?

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